https://github.com/manpages/erlongpoll

lightweight and scalable http push notification thingie written in erlang and javascript
https://github.com/manpages/erlongpoll

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lightweight and scalable http push notification thingie written in erlang and javascript

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/manpages/erlongpoll
• Owner: manpages
• Created: 2011-10-15T06:38:09.000Z (about 13 years ago)
• Default Branch: master
• Last Pushed: 2011-10-19T18:59:34.000Z (about 13 years ago)
• Last Synced: 2023-03-12T06:04:23.388Z (over 1 year ago)
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• Size: 113 KB
• Stars: 2
• Watchers: 2
• Forks: 0
• Open Issues: 0
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  • Readme: README

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README

        
CLIENT

DESCRIPTION

The thing is not even a library to do push notifications over http.

On the client side it initializes connection with server that terminates after the data is received

afterwards the connection is re-established. There is a way to stop the connection. 

My implementation of the client-side Poll function relies on jQuery. If you don't want to use 

jQuery, you will have to rewrite it (it's rather small anyways).

To utilize the Poll() function I use a handler function and event-rising. I'll link the longpoll 

file uploader I have wrote rather soon.

SERVER

DESCRIPTION

Pollbox is the heart of the library. You start it and it registers under poll_manager atom and

routes data received from modules that want to do a push notifications to the notification sender 

process loop whose PID is looked up by its poll descriptor. So basically the process of work with 

push notifications looks something like that:

```

       |-(Desc)---> Logic module

Client |                        `--> Pollbox -.

       |<-______                (getting PID from Descriptor)

                \_               ____________/

                  ` Http_push <-/

```

The http_push relies on YAWS. You may rewrite it using whatever http server you like though.

For more details, read the example code that'll commit rather soon.

LICENSE

MIT. Do whatever.